Comments on: Pro se divorce is on the rise http://valawyersweekly.com/2009/08/17/pro-se-divorce-is-on-the-rise/
VA Lawyers WeeklyThu, 19 Feb 2015 16:56:44 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5By: Kate Bladowhttp://valawyersweekly.com/2009/08/17/pro-se-divorce-is-on-the-rise/comment-page-1/#comment-2037
Kate BladowWed, 19 Aug 2009 18:22:12 +0000http://valawyersweekly.com/?p=47596#comment-2037It’s great to see the Virginia Lawyers Weekly covering this topic. Nationally, the number of people going to court on their own is rising. Organizations, like the Self-Represented Litigation Network (http://www.srln.org and http://www.selfhelpsupport.org), have developed to support law librarians, court clerks, judges, legal aid advocates, and others who are working to help self-represented litigants gain access to the courts.

Since VA is just at the point of developing the forms, automating the documents is a good while down the road. However, in the meantime, VALegalAid.org has plenty of free legal information available.

Kate
Project Coordinator
Pro Bono Net

]]>By: Laurence E. Fannhttp://valawyersweekly.com/2009/08/17/pro-se-divorce-is-on-the-rise/comment-page-1/#comment-2014
Laurence E. FannTue, 18 Aug 2009 18:47:49 +0000http://valawyersweekly.com/?p=47596#comment-2014We recently posted uncontested divorce forms that are in 4 module, and were designed to be legally sufficient in all of the Virginia jurisdictions. These modules are fill-inable and have links to many state forms including waiver of service and the privacy addendum.